Pieter van Damme - Joseph Eckhel - 1791-3-10

Pieter van Damme, Amsterdam

Pieter van Damme - Joseph Eckhel - 1791-3-10

FINA IDUnique ID of the page ^ᵖ	13623
InstitutionName of Institution.	Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum
InventoryInventory number.	MK 74
AuthorAuthor of the document.	Pieter van Damme
RecipientRecipient of the correspondence.	Joseph Eckhel
Correspondence dateDate when the correspondence was written: day - month - year .	March 10, 1791
PlacePlace of publication of the book, composition of the document or institution.	Amsterdam ^{52° 22' 21.94" N, 4° 53' 36.96" E}
Associated personsNames of Persons who are mentioned in the annotation.	Siwart Haverkamp
LiteratureReference to literature.	Haverkamp 17391, Eckhel 17882, Dekesel - Dekesel-De Ruyck 2022, p. 589, note 513
KeywordNumismatic Keywords ^ᵖ	Plagiarism , Exchange
LanguageLanguage of the correspondence	French
External LinkLink to external information, e.g. Wikpedia ^ᵖ

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-Letter of 10 March 1791 (from Amsterdam): On 10 March 1791, van Damme revived the correspondence. Evidently feeling guilty, he asked for the price of the Choix that he received in 1789, and wanted to resume exchanges with Eckhel. Eckhel replied on 10 June 1791. Unfortunately, this letter and the following one (dated 13 August 1791) are lost: probably they were destroyed by van Damme because they contained grave accusations against him. From van Damme’s reply – which was penned in Dutch – it is clear that Eckhel found out that the book he had been sold was not an original publication, but a collection of older plates, almost all taken from a large work by Sigebert Havercamp on Hellenistic coins and history, the Algemeene Histori (1736–1739), see the following part of the present article. Eckhel accused van Damme of deliberate fraud (Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, MK 74; Dekesel - Dekesel-De Ruyck 2022, p. 589, note 51)

References

^ Haverkamp, Sigebert (1739), Algemeene histori der zaaken in Asie, Afrike en Europe, en in derzelver koningryken, landschappen, staaten en steden, zedert het ophouden der fabel-eeuw, tot op de heerschappy van Karel den Grooten, en tot den tyd, doorgaan de Middel-Eeuwe genaamd, voorgevallen. Derde deel, behelzende de histori der ryken en landschappen van Asie, en voornaamelijk van Pontus, Kappadokie, Bithynie, Pergamus, Galatie, Karie, Paphlagonie, Kilikie, Arabie, Syrie, Kommagene, enz. Uit de overgebelevene werken der oude schryveren saamgesteld, en met duizenden historipenningen verrykt en opgeheldert, Den Haag
^ Eckhel, Joseph (1788), Choix des pierres gravées du cabinet imperial des antiques, Vienna.
^ Dekesel, Christian Edmond - Dekesel-De Uyt, Yvette M. M. (2022), "The Unholy Relationship Between a Numismatic Scholar and a Wheeler Dealer: Joseph Eckhel, Pieter van Damme and the Peculiar Recueil des médailles des Rois", in Bernhard Woytek and Daniela Williams (eds.), Ars critica numaria. Joseph Eckhel (1737–1798) and the Transformation of Ancient Numismatics, Vienna, p. 583-623